Can you load 20 millions records into Salesforce in under an hour? If not, this video is for you. You want to load tons of data into Salesforce. No problem, right? Just use the Bulk API and turn on parallel loading. Think again. Unless you carefully plan the big data loads that you want to break up into parallel operations to achieve maximum throughput, those loads can turn out more like slow, serial loads. In this video, you will learn how to realize awesome throughput in your parallel data loads on the Salesforce1 Platform.

Salesforce allows you to brand your Community Login page via the login page tab of the Community Settings box, you get when you click on Edit next to the Community name.

Branding Community Login Page

But some time you may get an error message that says “The upload failed. Please try again later“.

The upload failed. Please try again later Error

This is because of, In the Document Tab, there is a folder named “Communities Shared Document Folder”, Salesforce use this folder to store the custom logo for Communities and it should have access to all users (“This folder is accessible by all users“). Once that setting is correct, you should be able to upload the logo successfully.

Communities Shared Document Folder

Salesforce.com Summer’14 Key Dates

Few Important key dates are :-

June 17th and 18th – Release readiness live broadcast (http://bit.ly/SummerReleaseReadiness)
June 20th – NA1 upgraded
June 27th – Release training available
July 7th – The second release weekend
July 18th – The final release weekend

Have you ever wanted to calculate the number of days that a case has been open? This short video walks you through constructing a formula that will calculate the number a days it took to close a case , or if the case is still open, how many days have passed since it was first opened.

Accessing the Email Field from a Lookup Object

Have you ever wanted to use a field from a lookup object on its child object? For example, accessing the email field on a lookup object in a workflow that is based on the child object? This video walks you through just such a scenario. We have a script object that looks up to the writer object where the email is stored. Using a series of formulas and fields, we create a workflow that sends an email to the writer that is triggered by a value on the script object.

Tip #1 – Override New Button and skip Record Type selection option

Salesforce allows you to override New button for standard and custom objects with Visualforce Page. If the object has some record type defined and assigned to profile, then after overrode also it will show record type selection page. To skip record type selection page after override follow the below instructions, In this demo I will override New button from case object

1) Click on Name | Setup | App Setup | Customize | Cases | Buttons, Links and Actions
2) Click on Edit link available near to New button as shown in the below screenshot

Edit New Button

3) Navigate to Override Properties Section select Visualforce page and then select a value for Skip Record Type Selection Page checkbox as shown in the below screenshot

Skip Record Type Selection Page

Note :- Check-box “Skip Record Type Selection Page” is only available if you have some record type defined for that particular object.

Salesforce.com Summer’14 Key Dates

Today is sandbox preview day!, if you’ve chosen to take part in the Summer’14 sandbox preview, your sandbox is now upgraded to Summer’14. To get the access of Summer ’14 Pre-Release org sign up now. It has all the new release features so that you can test them and figure out which ones are right for you. Important changes to sign up for pre-release org that you will love is

1) you can sign up for different Salesforce editions i.e Group, Professional, Enterprise and Developer
2) you can sign ups for multiplepre-release org with same email address . Before that we were following “Salesforce Pre-Release Registration” method (Blog Written By – Johan Yu) to sign-up for multiple pre-release org.

Few Important dates are :-

June 6th – Sandboxes upgraded
June 17th and 18th – Release readiness live broadcast
June 20th – NA1 upgraded
June 27th – Release training available
July 7th – The second release weekend
July 18th – The final release weekend